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[manwiththestick]

Fernando's problem is his state of mind.

 

Question : How would I replace the first word with Torres there? Torres's, or Torres'?

 

Pretty sure it's Torres's as it's a possessive apostrophe?

[Il Fenomeno]

Those six players cost about £75m. They could afford to pay their best players more money if they didn't pay every 12 year old at the club £25k a week.

 

Look at their record transfer though. I think its Arshavin at around £15m.

 

Sure we've signed close to a whole team of players that have cost that more.

 

Yet they've consistently finished above us.

 

BBC Sport - Premier League spending breaks £4bn barrier over last decade

 

Look at the gap between Arsenal in 6th and the top 5 in that time. Yet they've finished in the top 4 every year despite the fact they cannot compete with the amount of money Spurs, Liverpool, Man Utd, Chelsea & City have spent over the last 10 years.

 

And if you look at this from August 2011: Arsenal’s net spending of £48m in a decade puts them 9th in Premier League « Sporting Intelligence

 

They had actually spent less (net) than Stoke, Sunderland & Aston Villa at the time.

[Red Phoenix]

Pretty sure it's Torres's as it's a possessive apostrophe?

 

No idea as I don't know how you apply the other one. Will google anyway and have a look as I need to learn it.

[billypilgrimnz]

No idea as I don't know how you apply the other one. Will google anyway and have a look as I need to learn it.

 

You can actually do both, but I prefer Torres'. It's cleaner.

[Strontium]

Niall Quinn in the commentary box is ace, it's like having Zig and Zag commentating on the match.

[Red Phoenix]

You can actually do both, but I prefer Torres'. It's cleaner.

 

Ok, thanks again.

 

(sorry for the offtopic.)

 

Not watching Utd (probably got Webb reffing?) but Spurs are annoying at home, won't be surprised if Utd lose. edit : Webb not the ref.

[Jack the Sipper]

from the BBC texy commentary:

 

Bacary Sagna almost nips in on the blind side but Ashley Cole produces a brilliant foul to bring him down. It's a booking for Cole, but one he will take all day long. Free-kick on the edge of the area though.

 

How about a 'brilliant handball'?

[Chocoholic]

Mata thinksh he'sh Steve McLaren

[Reckoner]

it's a shame Cole didn't brilliantly swerve his car off the road when he learned of Arsenals 55 grand a week offer.

[boomer39]

just heard van pissie on sly spts .. mr neevile said he spoke like a dung player!!!! thats about right.... a load of sh1t....cummon tottingham....

Edited January 20, 2013 by boomer39

[FrenchEyeGlass]

Do we ever play with orange/yellow balls anymore?

[kalasoma]

I don't want Utd to win ever. But Spurs losing is better for us. I guess a draw would be a better outcome.

[J-V]

Walker defending like he normally does

[Josef Svejk]

Walker defending like he normally does

 

He was poor. But van Persie is surely the responsibility of the central defenders?

[J-V]

He was poor. But van Persie is surely the responsibility of the central defenders?

 

Not if they're zonal marking. He was picking him up, up to the point of Cleverly crossing the ball.

[magicrat]

I don't want Utd to win ever. But Spurs losing is better for us. I guess a draw would be a better outcome.

Best outcome would be Taggart getting severe hypothermia sat on the bench .

[Josef Svejk]

Well, if it was zonal marking, it was a fucking disaster: there was another United player right behind van Persie, also completely unmarked...

[Josef Svejk]

Nice refereeing for that Kagawa foul, by the way. Blatant, right in front of the ref; no foul...

[Jairzinho]

Good few minutes of songs about Suarez there. I just don't even.

[mouse1989]

from the BBC texy commentary:

 

 

 

How about a 'brilliant handball'?

 

Both trying to gain an unfair advantage but one is acceptable on the football field, known as a tactical foul and the other not so.

 

Wrote a decent first blog pretty much about this issue if anyone is interested.

 

‘Winning isn’t everything, it’s the only thing’ « michaeledwards89

[Faustus]

A nice little rendition of 'always the victim' just then.

 

Cunts.

[INTORRESTING]

singing about us, obsessed!

[Guest San Don]

Pretty sure it's Torres's as it's a possessive apostrophe?

 

It can be both although the Apostrophe Protection Society prefers quote Torres's unquote.

 

In practical terms though, where a word ends in an s, it's acceptable to drop the s after the apostrophe so Torres's and Torres' are both correct. Bit like staiums and stadia meaning more than one stadium.

[kalasoma]

Why is Bale playing in the middle?

[boomer39]

Best outcome would be Taggart getting severe hypothermia sat on the bench .

no... a fucin hyperdermic....